Mar 23, 2007Quickie Link: Gay Activist Peter Tatchell Wants to Know Why
By Kyleovision
A moral hierarchy has shaped public policy on discrimination. Legislation against racism is much tougher than legislation against homophobia. Racial slurs provoke far stronger public condemnation than sexist ones. Some liberals and left-wingers mute their condemnation of intolerance when it emanates from non-white people; whereas they would strenuously denounce similar prejudice if it was being vented by whites against blacks or by Christians against Muslims. They argue that we have to "understand" bigots from racial and religious minorities; yet few of them ever urge the same "understanding" of white working class bigots.
Some argue that western Christianisation and colonialism are responsible for prejudice in minority communities. The hate-mongers in these communities are deemed more or less blameless. They are victims, not perpetrators, according to this guilt-ridden "anti-racism". Such nonsense infantilises non-white people; treating them as inferiors who are incapable of taking responsibility for their actions and of moral behaviour.
Double standards on human rights influence law enforcement. Fundamentalist Muslim clerics are permitted to endorse the so-called "honour" killing of unchaste women; whereas any woman who dared advocate violent retribution against Islamist misogynists would soon find herself in court.
